MusicBrainz Tagger 0.10.5

Publisher's Description:

MusicBrainz Tagger - The MusicBrainz Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn't recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM ids) of your files back to the server. Submitting acoustic fingerprints will allow MusicBrainz to automatically identify these tracks in the future, so that other people using the Tagger can benefit from the work you have done.

As the community uses the Tagger application, more and more files will be automatically recognized. However, as we are just starting to collect the acoustic fingerprints, fewer files will be initially recognized. So, please download the Tagger and run your music collection through it so we can start collecting more acoustic fingerprints. You may also want to take a look at our statistics page to see how many TRM ids we've been collecting recently.

List of Changes:

Version 0.10.5 from 2005-09-13

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Latest User Reviews:

Nice idea, but too mainstream for me

As far as I can tell, the MusicBrainz Tagger works well. It checks your MP3 files against an on-line database and suggests adding (or changing) the ID3 tags. Works best if there is already title and/or artist: but it can plug some holes by identifying album and track number. I'm disappointed, though, that genre and year don't seem to be among the tags the program caters for. Furthermore, the program is only as good as its resources, and although the user-created database is big, it doesn't really correspond to my music collection. I have a lot of MP3s produced from original vinyl recordings – 45rpm records or discontinued vinyl albums. Clearly these don't appear in the database; and the album-oriented approach doesn't cater for the concept of "singles" or "B-sides".